This paper deals with the analytical weakness of a number of papers which are published in the journals of history of economic thought. The aim is to highlight the need to combine the historical sensibility with both the logical consistency and the formal rigour of the analysis.

In Passarella (2011B) a kind of up-grading of Minsky’s economic thought was proposed, in which his ‘financial instability hypothesis’ was inter-bred with inputs from the current heterodox literature. This up-grading was done within a one-good model where capital goods were regarded as a...

This article aims to shed light on the role played by the ‘rate of turnover’ of capital within the Marxian analysis of the working laws of capitalism. Oddly enough, that concept has been neglected by the most part of Karl Marx’s scholars and exegetes, as is demonstrated proved by the small...

The scientific, and human, relationship of Hyman P. Minsky with Italy and its scholars has been very close since the mid-1970s. Minsky’s economic thought has influenced three generations of Italian economists, and it keeps on affecting young scholars who do not settle for mainstream economics...

This article aims to shed light on the role played by the ‘rate of turnover’ of capital within the Marxian analysis of the working laws of capitalism. Oddly enough, that concept has been neglected by the most part of Karl Marx’s scholars and exegetes, as is demonstrated proved by the small...

The scientific, and human, relationship of Hyman P. Minsky with Italy and its scholars has been very close since the mid-1970s. Minsky’s economic thought has influenced three generations of Italian economists, and it keeps on affecting young scholars who do not settle for mainstream economics...

This paper deals with the analytical weakness of a number of papers which are published in the journals of history of economic thought. The aim is to highlight the need to combine the historical sensibility with both the logical consistency and the formal rigour of the analysis.

In Passarella (2011B) a kind of up-grading of Minsky’s economic thought was proposed, in which his ‘financial instability hypothesis’ was inter-bred with inputs from the current heterodox literature. This up-grading was done within a one-good model where capital goods were regarded as a...

In the last few years, a number of scholars has referred to the crop of contributions of Hyman P. Minsky as „required reading? for understanding the tendency of capitalist economies to fall into recurring crises. However, the so-called „financial instability hypothesis? of Minsky relies on...

Since deregulation in the 1980s, all advanced countries have gone along the same route increasingly shaping their financial regulations according to principles and theoretical models set out by global standard setters. Structural fragilities, failures of regulators, and short-sighted supervisors...